Madison R. Wolfert (any pronouns) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English and pursuing a Certificate in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Madison is also a Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for Culture, Society and Religion for 2024-2025. Madison’s peer-reviewed article, “The Racial Biopolitics of Sex in the Work of Henry Neville,” can be found in the Autumn 2024 issue of English Literary Renaissance.

Madison’s dissertation project, titled “A Part of that Empire”: Sex, Race, and Labor in the Early Modern Atlantic World” brings together well-known works of literature, archival materials, and contemporary criticism in global feminisms, trans studies, and the study of race and colonialism to describe how the imperial European nation-state is built upon the sexual and reproductive labor of both racialized and white women and non-normatively sexed populations. 

Madison has taught several courses in the Department of English and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, including GSS201: Introduction to Gender & Sexuality Studies. Madison designed and co-taught the interdisciplinary course, ENG384/GSS394: Gender, Sex, and Desire in Early Modernity, alongside Professor Russ Leo in Fall 2023.